The Chinese edition of Les Ignorants: Récit d’une Initiation Croisée [When a Comic Book Author Encounters a Wine Maker] by Étienne Davodeau, based on Lansade’s life-story, had recently been published by China’s Hinabook Company in late 2016.

The Chinese “mirror” provides Europe with new insights into its inner-self and its perception of the world. And it is exactly these differences and points of friction which, for Labisch, offer the potential to provide a closer understanding of the “conditio humana” and a more sophisticated image of the general condition of humankind.

IN 1950, a year after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the country received its first group of 33 international students. As of 2017, China is the first choice for many international students in Asia, and ranks a world third overall.

Striving to achieve green, low-carbon development and ecological progress has been set as an important goal for national growth in China, providing guiding philosophies to tackle environmental challenges.